This Section lists ... natural order graces, in the form of miracles ... to confirm
the Catholic Faith ... for the supernatural goal of saving souls.
The way to bring one's soul to the justified state is on
Section 2.1 to have a chance of getting to Heaven.

Forty (40) Listed

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1.  Saint Vincent performed his first miracle before he was born

During her pregnancy, Constance went to give her monthly alms to a blind woman. After asking the blind women to pray for a safe child birth, the blind women bent her head over onto the mother’s bosom and said “May God bestow that favor on you!”. At that instant the blind women could see.

The baby Vincent in his mother’s womb started to jump, as John the Baptist did.

One witness who followed the Saint for fifteen months testified under oath that ...

"After Mass and the Sermon, and again after Vespers, the sick were brought to Master Vincent to be healed. Master Vincent laid his hands upon them, blessed them, and the sick were healed, and went away rejoicing."

Vincent was still in a cradle and just starting to lisp, when Valencia was hit by a drought. Though public prayers were offered to obtain relief, not a cloud appeared in the sky.

Then one of these days, as his mother was speaking of this, she clearly heard her son say ... "If you wish for rain, carry me in procession, and you shall be favorably heard."

Hearing these miraculous words, the mother rushed to the city magistrate, who immediately decreed that a procession should take place.

The baby Vincent was carried triumphantly; shortly after the procession was completed, the sky suddenly became overcast and copious rain fell for several hours.

When Vincent was nine years old, he went to the home of one of his classmates to fetch him for school.

Hearing the mother weeping, he hastily ascended the stairs of the house and found the mother, who cried out, sobbing: "My son is dead !"

Vincent smiled and said to the mother: "Let us go, my friend is not dead, he is sleeping; let us go to see him."

Vincent approached the bed, and taking the cold and rigid corpse by the hand exclaimed: "Get up, it is time to go to school !"

The nine year old boy opened his eyes as if he had been in a deep sleep. The boy dressed himself and they both headed off to school as if nothing had occurred.

Saint Antonius (Antoninus), Archbishop of Florence, another learned Dominican about 30 years old when Vincent died, stated that Saint Vincent had raised 28 persons from the dead.

But others claimed that Saint Antonius’ estimate fell far short of the actual number raised. Perhaps there is some confusion in distinguishing those Vincent personally raised during his life and those raised through his intercession after his death.

The author Fr. Andrew Pradel states that Saint Vincent Ferrer "resuscitated more than 30 persons during his lifetime."

Note: One coming back to life ... is the Catholic God placing the person's immortal soul back into their body.

When preaching to an immense crowd in the open square of the Dominican Convent of Saint Stephen ... Saint Vincent solemnly declared that he was the Angel of the Judgement spoken of by Saint John in his writings on the Apocalypse.

This caused murmurings amongst the crowd which included many religious and theologians. St Vincent, knowing of these murmurings said: "Some of you go near Saint Paul's Gate, and you will find a dead person borne on men's shoulders on the way to the grave.

Bring the corpse hither, and you shall hear the proof of what I tell you." Several men went as instructed as the multitude waited. Soon the bier was brought with a dead woman upon it.

They raised the litter and set it up so all could see. Saint Vincent bade her return to life, and the dead woman sat up.

"Who am I?" Vincent asked her. She answered: "You, Father Vincent, are the Angel of the Apocalypse, as you have already told this vast assembly." She then once more laid down in death. A cross was placed on the spot of this occurrence.

One day some block masons, working high on a wall, spotted Friar Vincent walking down the street.

Just as he was passing by, one of the masons lost his footing and started to fall crying out:  "Friar Vincent !  Friar Vincent !"

Looking up, Friar Vincent yelled out ... "Stay right were you are until I come back."

Immediately, the man stopped falling and hung in midair high above the street. Running back to his Prior, Vincent said: “A man who is falling off a roof has asked me to help him, so he is waiting till I have your permission."  "Waiting ?"  "Yes, he is waiting."  The Prior answered: "Well, go back and finish it off, undoubtedly there is a crowd."

Friar Vincent went back, and by this time there was a large crowd of astonished people looking up at the man suspended this whole time in midair. "The Prior says you may come down"  said Vincent.  The man floated gently down to the earth.  This miracle is the reason he is the patron saint of builders and construction workers.

There were many miraculous gifts associated with Saint Vincent’s preaching.

He always preached in his native Spanish Valencian dialect yet everyone clearly understood him no matter which language they spoke.

Whether they spoke French, Italian, English, Greek or German, they not only heard their own native tongue but also their native idiom.

In 1418 our Saint was in Caen where King Henry held his Court, which was composed of people from many lands. They were all astonished and the King testified that they heard Vincent ... "Preaching, as it were in the language of each one present."

Saint Vincent and a large crowd were crossing the Ebro river at Tortosa, Spain.

The boats were dangerously overloaded and eventually started to take on water to the point of sinking. Cries of distress were heard on every side imploring Master Vincent to save them.

He made the sign of the Cross on the river, instantly the boats ceased to take on water, and they safely reached their destination.

Once a mohammedan promised to embrace the faith if the pyre he had lighted in the main square was extinguished at Vincent's prayer; Vincent prayed, the flame went out.

Having been invited by the mohammedan king of Grenada, there Vincent converted eighteen thousand mohammedans after just three sermons.

There was a dying man who was a known sinner ... he wouldn't let a local priest help him.

His priest exhorted this sinner ... but the man in despair rebuked the pleas saying that his sins were too great.

Brother Vincent was in the neighborhood, and being appraised of the situation, hastened to him.

Vincent spoke to him ... but this only incited the man to greater despair. Vincent finally turned to the dying man and said: "I will save thee in spite of thyself."

He then invited those present to invoke the Holy Virgin and to recite the Rosary. Before the Rosary was completed, the room was flooded with an immense light and the Mother of God appeared with the Divine Child.

The dying man's witness of this, changed his heart, and full of compunction, he asked pardon of God ... the man shortly after expired.

Note: The four steps to enter the Catholic Church, which has no buildings in these times, are on Section 2.1.

One day while preaching in Lerida, Spain ... to the King of Aragon and an immense multitude, Vincent stopped in the middle of his discourse and exclaimed that there was a paralytic man a couple of miles away who was struggling to reach the city.

The King dispatched two of his servants to fetch the man. Carrying the paralytic in their arms, they approached St Vincent, who raising his hand, made the sign of the cross over the cripple.

The man was instantly cured and ran to St Vincent to thank him.

There was a woman whose husband falsely accused her of infidelity and that their new born child was not his son.

The women went to Brother Vincent to seek his counsel. The Saint told her: "Come to my next sermon, bid your husband mix with the audience, and omit not to bring your baby with you." The women obeyed the instructions.

When Vincent had begun his talk to the huge crowd, he addressed himself to the baby: "Leave thy mother's arms and go in search of thy father in the midst of this great crowd of people."

The little baby was given miraculous use of its feet to everyone’s astonishment. It threaded its way through the crowd unassisted, then seizing its father's hand cried out ... "This is my father; I am really his child." The father sobbed aloud, asked pardon of his wife, and made full reparation for having calumniated her.

While in the city of Barbastro, in Catalonia, Vincent had completed Mass ... when a terrible storm suddenly unleashed itself. It was so violent that the people felt in fear of destruction.

The Saint walked out of the Church, made the sign of the Cross with Holy-water, the storm immediately stopped and the sky became serene.

Ascending the pulpit, he exhorted the people to give thanks to the holy Apostles because it was by their intercession that this storm was stopped.

Adding that if it had not been abated, no leaves would have been left on the trees, nor green herbs in the fields. He also told them that unless they beseech God to preserve their goods and make holy use of them, the following year would bring a similar tempest which would devastate the land.

Eleven months later a storm did exactly as he had warned about.

There was a ten-year-old boy named Guillaume de Villiers who was stricken by a mysterious malady in which he was stricken dumb, refused all nourishment, and had become totally paralyzed. He heard and understood what was spoken to him, as evidenced by his expression, but was incapable of making any sort of response.

While Friar Vincent was in Saint-Lo in 1418, the parents brought the boy to him and petitioned for his cure. Vincent told them: “Bring the child to Caen.” So, the parents joined the procession following our friar, wheeling the child in a little hand-cart. On reaching Caen the preacher was conducted to a great open space where King Henry and his officials were seated, with a huge multitude in the surrounding space.

As soon as the sermon was ended, the parents of the sick boy, fearing that he would be forgotten, pushed their way with the cart to the front near Vincent. They begged piteously for their son that he obtain either a speedy cure or speedy death. The master turned to the King and multitude instructing all to pray. While they were in prayer, Saint Vincent made the Sign of the Cross over the child saying: "May the Blessing of God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost descend on thee and remain forever."

Next, he spoke to the boy: "My child, what do you want of God ?"

The boy could then speak ... "Father," answered the cured boy, "I desire the good pleasure of God which is being accomplished at this moment."

In Barcelona, Spain, there was a man named Louis Cataldo who had been suffering from severe head pains which no doctor nor treatment could help.

This man didn’t believe in the miracles Saint Vincent was performing, but in desperation he went to church where Vincent was preaching.

As Vincent descended from the pulpit the man said: “Father, I have suffered frightful pains in the head for two years; I implore you to cure me.”

The Saint replied: “I am neither God, nor a doctor, to cure you.”

In hearing this response to his plea, the man realized the Saint knew he had doubts about the miracles.

But aided by God’s grace, the man said to him once more “And yet I firmly hope you will grant me this favour.”

Vincent replied: "But do you really believe it ?" "Certainly, my Father" the man answered.

Then Vincent placed his hand on Louis's head saying "Thou art already cured; thank God and believe that they who serve Him are invested with great power."

The man was instantly cured and for the remaining forty years of his life, he never experienced the slightest pain in his head.

There was a merchant named Seuchier who had lost his sight. In hearing that Saint Vincent was at the Benedictine Abbey at Montolieu, the merchant went there to seek healing.

The Saint met the man ... the merchant saying: "Master, since you are, as I believe, a true disciple of Jesus Christ, I pray you restore to me my sight which I have lost for the space of three years."

St Vincent made the sign of the Cross on the man’s eyes and the merchant immediately recovered his sight.

In Spain while traveling from Lerida to Balguer, a group of assassins waited in ambush to kill Brother Vincent.

These men were angry because the Saint's preaching had caused the women of bad morals to repent of their trade, thus depriving these men of their income.

Being aware of the assassins plans, the Saint told his companions: "They who come before us are the panders of the women of abandoned life who are converted, and they are coming to me with a firm resolution of killing me."

The companions offered to defend Saint Vincent; but he said to them ... "I have no need of you; go on before, and leave me alone with these men."

No sooner was Vincent separated from his companions than the assassins surrounded him with their swords drawn preparing to slay him.

Saint Vincent turned towards them, making the sign of the Cross said ... "By the sign of the Cross, deliver me from our enemies, O Lord."

The assassins immediately became like statues, unable to move. Then the Saint began to preach penitence to them.

When he knew they were all repentant, he gave them permission to depart. At these words they were restored. They cast down their swords, fell at his feet, asked pardon of him, asked permission to join his company and to perform public penance. They joined the group and gave great example to all.

One day, at Montblanch, Brother Vincent brought his donkey to a farrier begging him in charity to be so good as to shoe his beast, which had lost a shoe.

When the job reshoeing all four was completed, the farrier asked to be paid.

Vincent told him "I have nothing to give you, but God will recompense you for your charity”. The workman answered “Oh Father, I cannot work merely out of charity ... pay me or I will not restore to you your donkey".

The Saint again asked him for this charity, but the workman said ... "I cannot afford it, and you shall neither have the beast nor the shoes until you have paid me."

Then St Vincent turned to his donkey and said: "This man will not give the shoes which he has put on you, because I cannot pay him, restore them to him, and let us go."

At this the animal shook its feet one after the other, miraculously casting off the shoes.

At the sight of this miracle, the workman, stupefied, fell on his knees before the Saint, besought pardon for his obstinate avarice, then reshoed the donkey.

Note: Clearly, Saint Vincent using his power of miracles to convert this farrier (horse shoe person).

One day, as St Vincent traveled through a vast plain with the multitude which followed him, the Saint perceived that all were fatigued with the journey and suffering greatly from hunger and thirst. He recommended them to God in a short prayer, and full of confidence in Divine Providence, he turned to his companions saying: "Not far hence is a hillock," and at the same time pointed to it with his finger "but a little further on we shall find a lodging where we shall be kindly received, and where we shall be able to recruit our strength."

Indeed, they had scarce passed the hillock, when they discovered a sumptuous palace on the plain. They all entered and were received by a number of young, beautiful, people. The wines, bread, and food seemed to them the food of Paradise. Having regained their strength, and thanked God, the travelers offered a thousand thanks to their hosts, and set out again. When Vincent had gone about three miles, knowing there was a man in the group who had little faith in the miracles, called the man to him saying:

"I have left my kerchief at the inn from which we have come; go and fetch it. I left it on the table." The incredulous disciple obeyed, and went to the place where they had been; but did not find the house. He sought in vain on every side but could not discover the place which they had been or any trace of a house.

It was a bleak plain. In the midst of this plain was a huge stone, and on the top of it lay the Saint's kerchief.

Astonished, the disciple realized that this palace where they had been received could only be a habitation miraculously prepared by angels; and reasoning thus, he approached the Saint.

He immediately sunk on his knees, and asked pardon of him for his incredulity. The Saint readily accorded it to him, but forbade him to make known the miracle. The disciple, however, unable to contain himself, proclaimed to all, saying that the angels, wishing to honour Saint Vincent, had descended from Heaven, and miraculously prepared a habitation to receive him and his companions, and that they had been served by the hands of angels.

While Vincent was preaching in Valencia, there was a religious, who in hearing one of our Saint’s sermons, asked his Abbot if he could join Vincent’s company of followers. His request was denied so the religious returned to his Monastery which was twenty-five miles away.

One morning, knowing the time of Saint Vincent’s sermon, this religious went to the top of a nearby hill, and restraining his breath, strove to hear the sermon. He obtained the grace to hear so clearly, that even at this great distance, he could write down the whole sermon without omitting a syllable.

The Saint, knowing what had occurred, concluded this sermon saying: "My children, I exhort you who have been present at my sermon not to forget my words, for there are many who would wish to be present and cannot. Among them is a religious of a monastery many miles hence, and whose ears all my words have reached."

On Palm Sunday, 1407, there was a jew from Andalusia, named Abraham, who had gone to Master Vincent’s sermon partly from curiosity and partly in defiance. After uttering a stream of sarcasms, he began to leave in anger while Vincent was preaching.

At the instant the jew left, part of the porch structure fell on him and crushed him to death.

Then the saint rose from his chair and went to the ghastly crushed body. He knelt there in prayer. Abraham came to life fully restored, and his first words were: "The religion of the jews is not the true faith. The True Faith is that of the Christians."

While passing through the city of Zamora, Vincent visited a convent. As he was leaving, the religious there asked him to leave them some token of remembrance. "Most willingly; I will leave you our bell, take care of it, and treat it with respect, for it will serve a great, noble, and agreeable purpose" ... he said.

They did not comprehend then what this noble and agreeable purpose meant. The religious treated the bell as a precious relic of a saint, placing it apart, and treating it with honor.

It was not long before they learned what Vincent had meant; for the bell sounded of itself some days prior to the death of any one among them. This continued for over a hundred years until the year 1550, sounding the last time at the death of Father John of Saint Dominic.

Note: This was a great favor for this religious house ... so that people would be spared from ... no notice deaths.

While on the Isle of Majorca preaching, a tavern-keeper asked Saint Vincent to preach on the obligation of the payment of debts. The tavern-keeper explained how he had given credit for several measures of wine but was unable to recover payment.

The Saint answered him: "Very well, I shall say how guilty those are who keep what belongs to another; but first of all, I should like to know what the wine is like which you sell." The man retrieved a bottle of wine to show him and said: "Taste it Father; you will see that it is of excellent quality."

Saint Vincent then said: "Pour it on my scapular."   "But I shall spoil your holy habit." replied the tavern-keeper.

"That concerns me; do what I tell you" said Vincent.

As the man poured, the contents of the bottle separated into two parts, that which was wine ran upon the ground not staining the habit, while the other which was fraudulently added water, remained on the scapular.

"My brother," exclaimed Vincent, "you desire that others should pay you what is due; but have not you injured many persons by selling them an adulterated article ... and ought not you to repair that injury ?"

The tavern-owner being greatly confused, confessed his faults, made restitution to each whom he overcharged, renounced his trade, and joined the company which followed St Vincent.

At Montecalieri there was a farmer who gave Vincent hospitality. The man asked "Master, what can I do to be delivered from the storms which, year after year, devastate the countryside ?"

"For this year," replied the Saint, "I will see to it."

Some time later a terrible storm came on the area with devastating hail. The fields of crops were devastated everywhere except for the cornfield of this farmer. His land was an island of green among a sea of losted crops.

There were other similar miracles by St Vincent where he would bless a field and there would be a miraculously abundant harvest, far above what could be considered possible.

On Good Friday, the year 1410, Master Vincent was in Tortosa praying in the church prior to commencing his preaching. The crowds were immense and had filled the Ebro river bridge which was constructed of boats.

The bridge collapsed under the strain and broke in two. A terrible cry, which rose as the masses of people were tossed into the river, reached our Saint in the Church.

Rising and with unhurried steps, he came to the church porch, then making one Sign of the Cross, repaired the damaged bridge.

The people struggling in the water suddenly found themselves back on the shore. The miracle-worker calmly returned to prayer.

The people of Cati had made great preparations before the arrival of St Vincent and his followers, who were coming there from Morella. The people mended the roads he would be traveling on.

The neighboring cities sent in large provisions of fish, fowl, eggs and other food which a celebrated cook named Macerot was given charge to prepare. Hundreds went out to great Vincent.

In return for their hospitality, when Vincent was leaving the town, he made the Sign of the Cross on the surface of a marble pedestal, which took the imprint of the Sign as if his fingers had been carving very soft wax.

"My children," he said, "I have preached penance to you, now go back to your homes. And to show you that this time I expect my admonitions to be obeyed, I have given you a sign that you cannot erase."

Travelers crossing the mountains between Vicq and Granollers found few villages in which to find food, being the villages along this road were small and very poor. Saint Vincent, with about three thousand followers, were traveling through these mountains when they came to the small village of Locana.

They stopped at the door of a poor village inn. The landlord was aghast at seeing the crowd. “Father” he said, “you are bringing an army with you, how can you imagine that we have provisions for so many ?

I have just five loaves and a flagon of wine, and not the best wine at that.” St Vincent told him “Give what you have, nevertheless, and keep on giving.” The inn-keeper did as he was instructed and found he had ample for the whole company, and that the wine he was serving was of the best.

The man was amazed and terrified, but he kept his head, and when the meal was over, he asked Vincent to bless his house. At the blessing, the corn-bin and wine-cellar were miraculously filled anew.

There were many such miracles of provisions multiplied. For example, during a journey through Aragon, almost daily the food and drink were miraculously multiplied to serve the needs of those who followed Vincent.

While at Compostello, a young man who was strong and healthy but thoroughly blind, was brought to Master Vincent. Kneeling at the Saint’s feet, the young man implored him to cure him. "Go," said Vincent ... "To the Cathedral at Orviedo and there, kneeling before the Crucifix, tell Our Lord that I have sent you, ask for your cure and you will be heard."

The blind man did not hesitate, making this long journey as quickly as he could. He went straight to the Cathedral, kneeled before the crucifix saying ... "O Lord, Brother Vincent has sent me to You to be cured." He then immediately received his sight.

One time while preaching in San Sebastian, there was a shepherd in the mountainside who was anxious to hear St Vincent.

So, trusting in the goodness of his purpose, he drew a circle on the ground around his sheep, forbidding them to go outside it until his return. He made his way down into town and joined the crowd of listeners.

At the end of Vincent’s sermon, he heard the preacher concluding his talk with ... "Just like the shepherd over there, who has left his flock to take care of themselves after making a circle round them, and forbidding them to leave it".  The shepherd returned ... the flock still in the circle.

Saint Vincent's body, clothed in the religious habit, was carried in solemn procession to the Cathedral of Nannes ... for public veneration.

Two dead persons who were placed beside the dead Saint were restored to life, to bear witness to the sanctity of Vincent.

The remains of this Saint were placed in a marble vault in the Cathedral of Vannes, France. That evening, a leper was instantly cured after prostrating himself on the slab of the Saint's tomb. On hearing this, multitudes of invalids followed his example and were also cured.

The sculptor who carved the Saint's tomb, moved by the many healing stories, and who had a leg wound which no remedy could heal, was moved to have recourse to our Saint. He said: "Friend of God, good Father Vincent, pray to God for me !"  At that moment his leg pain was gone and in a few days the leg was perfectly healed.

Four hundred people recovered their health by merely lying on the bed in which the Saint had died.

After he was placed into his tomb there continued to be daily miracles at his tomb. Each Sunday there was a reading of the list of miracles which had occurred the prior week. The bells of the Cathedral would be rung when an extraordinary miracle occurred.

After the Saint was Canonized on October 1, 1458, his body was transferred from its original vault to a new more expensive tomb. In doing so, they found his body to be incorrupt, unchanged from when it was placed there almost forty years earlier. He was again placed out for public veneration.

During this Mass, a relative of the Duke of Brittany was cured of leprosy, and a man born blind received his sight.

Fifty years after Vincent's death, the twelve year old child of Duchess Leonor de Pimentel, died. The Duchess' confessor, Jean Lopez de Salamanque, counseled the noble lady to invoke his fellow Dominican, the recently canonized Saint Vincent Ferrer.

The mother made a vow to build a Church and Convent in Saint Vincent's honor if her son was restored. As soon as she had formulated her vow, her boy came back to life.

The Duchess became very devoted to Vincent and fervently desired that his life, virtues, and miracles be written about. When a grand ceremony was held at the newly finished Cathedral, the Duke and Duchess presented their son.

It was only then ... that the raised boy learned of his miraculous resuscitation. This boy grew up to become the Archbishop of Seville, and a Cardinal.

In the year 1701, Valencia was in a severe drought. During this time, an eight year old boy named Vincent Villarasa was suffering from fever and was near the point of death. His father, who had a great devotion to our Saint, and mother were not able to witness their son’s passing.

They left the room and had the boy’s aunt there at his bedside. At the moment when the aunt thought the child had breathed its last, the boy was suddenly revived and cried out: "Aunt, the Saint !"   "Aunt, the Saint !"  The parents and other relatives in the adjacent room, in hearing this, rushed into the room.

Seeing the boy well, they inquired who the Saint was who appeared to him. He answered: "It is a Saint clothed in black and white; he holds his hands pointing towards Heaven, and bears on his head a bright flame."

"He told me that I am already cured and that it will rain tomorrow." The next morning the parents went to the Church of Saint Dominic to offer thanksgiving to Saint Vincent for their son’s miraculous healing. That morning a heavy rain started which lasted for three days.

For a period, Saint Vincent would frequently appear to the religious of the Dominican Convent at Valencia.

Blessed Dominic Anadon said of that time ... "During the greater part of the night we have Saint Vincent in the dormitory, on the side of his old cell."

Saint Vincent appeared to Blessed Columba of Rieti to assure her to enter the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He appeared to Blessed Magdalen of Panatieri to let her know of her approaching death.

He appeared to Saint Catherine of Ricci to strengthen her for her approaching agony and death.

Saint Louis Bertrand had been given many favors by Saint Vincent ... the final was his appearance to St Louis as he was nearing death.

Vincent also appeared to the Blessed John Ribera, the Archbishop of Valencia and a contemporary of Saint Bertrand, who spent some time conversing with him.

There were countless prophecies by this great Saint. He foretold of various types of events, from deaths, saints to be, wars which would end, and other events.

This gift made him sought after by Popes, Kings, and others.

As an example, Vincent once said to a novice, Alphonso Borgia, "You will become Pope and will canonize me." And years later that novice, then Pope Callixtus III, did exactly that.

Vincent also told Saint Bernardino of Siena, when only a youth, that he (Bernardino) would be Canonized before himself ... and so it happened.

St Vincent was given the grace to be able to read people’s souls. For example, when hearing confessions, he would recall the sins which the penitents had forgotten.

During his sermons, he would sometimes fix his eyes on individuals who he had never before seen, and then begin to talk about specific sins which these individuals had often committed. It was common for those attending his sermons to say: "This man is truly a saint, for he knows the most hidden secrets of our hearts."

There was a person named Gaja who in asking to be admitted to the Saint's band of followers, was instructed to sell everything and to give it to the poor. The man did sell everything but gave only half to the poor ... secretly retaining the balance for himself.

When the man came to Vincent to be admitted, the Saint admonished him for having only given half his money away. Gaja fell to Vincent’s feet, asked for forgiveness, gave away the half he had kept, and joined the company of the Saint. Then there was a pilgrim who had been following with Vincent's group but who doubted the miracles and conversions he witnessed. He watched carefully so that he might be able to disprove the miraculous events. One day Vincent went to this man and revealed to him all of the secret thoughts in his heart. The man confused and repentant, threw himself on his knees seeking Vincent's pardon.

In another miracle credited to Vincent, the Venerable Father Micon is reported as claiming that a number of witnesses, gathered at Lerida, Spain ... before the Church of Saint Jean ... saw Vincent encounter a corpse there. With the Sign of the Cross ... Vincent returned the corpse alive to its feet.

The Fathers of the convent at Calabria gave guarantees of this miracle.

In the spring of 1375, the city of Barcelona was in the midst of a terrible famine. The inhabitants made public prayers and processions to obtain God’s intercession.

At the end of one of these processions which ended in a public square, Brother Vincent exhorted everyone to repentance for the famine was God’s punishment for their forgetfulness of the Divine Law.  (Note: The Divine Law is the Catholic Sources of Dogma, see Section 3.3)

He then suddenly exclaimed that this night two vessels would arrive at port laden with grain.

But the crowd dismissed what he said due to the terrible seas which were present, and which would prevent any ship from reaching port.

His fellow religious subsequently admonished Vincent about making such type of statements, and he was ordered by his Prior not to do anything which would draw attention to himself.

Vincent accepted this admonishment and spent the rest of the day in prayer. Towards that evening, two vessels laden with grain arrived and over the next few days twenty others also arrived.

As Friar Vincent traveled south of Valencia he came to the town of Teulada, not far from Cape Martin.

The inhabitants there had for many years suffered the double scourge, a yearly visitation of the plague, and incursions of Muslim pirates.

After being beseeched for help, Vincent took a boat out to a rock in mid-sea just outside the harbor. On it he made the Sign of the Cross, saying ... "Rest assured that pirates will never pass this rock."

On his return to shore, he made his way to a spot outside the village where four crossroads met ... from there he blessed the countryside and set up a wayside Cross beyond which he said the plague would never come again.

The town was thereafter protected.

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Summary ...

We are all well aware of the fact ... that the Saints in Heaven have more merit with God ... than those still in the world (hoping to get to Heaven) ... as we see in the Catholic writings of ... Matthew 11:11 and Luke 7:28.

The Catholic Jesus Christ is the sole ... Mediator of Redemption (the One who re-opened Heaven after it was closed by Original Sin) ... but He is not the mediator of grace. We see this in ... 1 Timothy 2:5-6 (the whole sentence), the heretics all leave out the last part (starting with the word "Who").

Catholic writing of 1 Saint Timothy 2:5-6 >
"For there is one God, and one Mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus: Who gave Himself a Redemption for all, a testimony in due times." Angels and men are the mediators of grace ... God is the originator of grace not a mediator or grace.

So we are encouraged to ... intercede for others ... by informing them of the true Divine Faith (the Catholic Sources of Dogma) ... and by praying for others.

Catholic writing of Apocalypse 8:3 >
"And another Angel came, and stood before the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all Saints upon the golden altar, which is before the throne of God."

Catholic writing of Apocalypse 8:4 >
"And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the Saints ascended up before God from the hand of the Angel."

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